A super way to use cheap keystone retaining wall blocks that sell for a couple of bucks each - just turn the ledge down to hold back a step face.but could make the steps curved and have less gapping between stones.

Few plants offer such riches as the Soft Tree Fern - Dicksonia antartica. It somehow combines the filigree elegance of a fern with the size and presence of a tree and lends an air of the primordial forest wherever it is planted.